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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Hundreds of Syrians to be given refuge: Clegg brokers deal to allow
most vulnerable victims of civil war including children and disabled to
come to Britain

Precedence to be given to most vulnerable Syrians seeking refuge abroad

Plan agreed last night after weeks of talks within Coalition government

UK is already the second largest bilateral donor to Syrian refugees

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'Moral responsibility': Deputy Prime Minister
Nick Clegg has announced that Britain is to take in some of the most
vulnerable refugees from Syria

Hundreds of the most vulnerable
victims of the civil war in Syria will be able to seek refuge in
Britain, in a deal brokered last night.Precedence
will be given to the most extreme cases such as women and children at
risk of sexual violence, the elderly, survivors of torture and people
with disabilities, Nick Clegg announced. The
Deputy Prime Minister said Britain had a ‘moral responsibility’ to help
alleviate the suffering in the region, where more than 100,000 people
have died and many millions displaced from their homes.The plan was agreed last night after
weeks of talks between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats about how
to respond to the Syrian conflict, which has raged for almost three
years. David Cameron has
come under pressure from Mr Clegg, Labour’s Ed Miliband and Ukip leader
Nigel Farage to join the countries currently offering sanctuary to some
of the refugees.More than
11.5million people inside Syria and those who have fled to neighbouring
countries are in need of food, shelter and medical treatment.Mr
Cameron appears to have overcome objections from the Home Office by
agreeing to let in ‘hundreds’ of vulnerable people, but without joining
the United Nations quota system.The
UN High Commission for Refugees is calling for Western nations to admit
30,000 Syrians between them. But last week immigration minister Mark
Harper said the quota system only provides ‘token relief’.A
government source said there were concerns that quotas would encourage a
‘box ticking culture’ among other countries who have not matched
Britain’s record on aid to the region. The UK is the second largest bilateral donor having given £600million aid to help refugees in the region.Sources said the deal was supported by Mr Cameron and Nick Clegg and there had not been a ‘Whitehall battle’ over it. ‘We
will be looking case-by-case at the most vulnerable to see if we can
help them’, a source said. The number is expected to be ‘in the
hundreds’ to be brought here over the coming months and to start ‘very
quickly’.

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Misery: A Syrian refugee carries his son along the market street at Zaatari refugee camp, near the Syrian
border in Mafraq, Jordan. Millions of Syrians have been displaced
by the three-year civil war in their country

Home secretary Theresa May will set out the new policy today in a parliamentary debate about the UK’s response to the crisis.At
least 1,500 people have already been able to settle in the UK through a
programme to help those with existing family ties. But in the Commons
last week, the Prime Minister warned that small quotas would have to be
considered carefully in a crisis involving millions of people.Mr
Clegg said last night that Britain had now agreed to provide refuge to
those ‘most traumatised’ by the crisis without setting specific targets.
The UN, which backs the UK’s stance, will help identify these people.

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Poverty: A Syrian woman lies in an empty
building in the Kucukpazar district of Istanbul yesterday. Destitute
refugees are filling houses in the Turkish capital which have been
evacuated for urban development projects

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More Syrians in Istanbul: It is estimated that
more than 11.5million people inside Syria and those who have fled to
neighbouring countries are in urgent need of food, shelter and medical
treatment

Mr Clegg said: ‘I am pleased to be
able to announce that the UK will be providing refuge to some of the
most vulnerable Syrian refugees. The Coalition Government wants to play
our part in helping to alleviate the immense suffering in Syria.‘The
£600million we have provided makes us the second largest bilateral
donor of humanitarian aid in the world. But as the conflict continues to
force millions of Syrians from their homes, we need to make sure we are
doing everything we can.’

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Human cost of war: A Syrian woman sits with her
children as she cooks a flat bread outside a tent at Quru Gusik refugee
camp on the outskirts of Arbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan region, in a picture
taken last week

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A Syrian girl plays with her doll outside a tent
at the Quru Gusik camp: Home secretary Theresa May will set out the new
policy today in a parliamentary debate about the UK's response to the
worsening Syrian refugee crisis

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Syrian refugee children play at Jordan's Al
Zaatari refugee camp: At least 1,500 Syrian refugees have already been
able to settle in the UK through a programme to help those with existing
family ties to the country

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Tent city: A view across al-Zaatari camp shows how far it extends, with tents equipped with satellite receivers

He said they intended to
target those ‘in greatest need’ and continue to support the peace talks
underway in Geneva between the Assad regime and opposition forces to
find a political solution.Mr
Clegg added: ‘We are one of the most open hearted countries in the
world and I believe we have a moral responsibility to help. 'Britain
has a long and proud tradition of providing refuge at times of crisis.
This Coalition Government will ensure it lives on.’

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

By Gilad Atzmon
A mass protest in Paris on Sunday against French President François
Hollande turned into an anti-Jewish demonstration and ended in clashes
between police and protesters.
Seemingly, Jewish organisations around the world are scared by the
recent developments in France. Once again, they clearly failed to
appreciate the growing mass fatigue of Shoah indoctrination and
belligerent lobby politics. However, I would contend that instead of
whining about the “rise of anti-Semitism”, Jews better, once and for
all, learn to ask why? Why the Jews again? Why are they hated? What is
it in Jewish politics that evokes so much resentment? Why does it happen
time after time?
It wasn’t easy for me to admit in my latest book that
Jewish suffering is actually embedded in Jewish culture. In other
words, Jews are actually destined to bring disasters on themselves.
Jewish politics and culture, unfortunately, is obnoxious, abusive, as
well as racist, and supremacist to the bone. Jewish culture is set to infuriate the Goyim just because Jews are defined by negation – that chilling sensation of being hated.
Interestingly enough, early Zionism, was a promise to change it all.
Herzl, Nordau, Borochov and Weizmann believed that a “homecoming
project” would transform the Diaspora Jews into ethical new Israelites.
They were sure that a settlement project would make the Jew lovable and
respected. But they were obviously wrong. Zionism was destined to
crash. In spite of being driven by anti-Jewish sentiments, Zionism was
quickly defeated by Jewishness (Jewish spirit, culture and ideology). It
matured into a vile chauvinist amplification of every possible crude
Jewish symptom it was initially supposed to eradicate.

Many Jews around the world are commemorating the Holocaust this week.
But if I am correct, maybe the time is ripe for Jewish and Zionist
organisations to draw the real and most important lesson from the
Holocaust. Instead of constantly blaming the Goyim for
inflicting pain on Jews, it is time for Jews to look in the mirror and
try to identify what it is in Jews and their culture that evokes so much
fury. It may even be possible that some Jews would take this
opportunity to apologise to the Gentiles around them for evoking all
this anger.
I would willingly take this opportunity and make an apology, but I have not been a Jew for a while now.

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Rise of the right: Theresa May under pressure as the leader of ultra-nationalist Hungarian party Jobbik prepares UK visit

The Home Secretary is under increasing pressure from Jewish groups
and others to ban the Hungarian ultra-nationalist party from spreading
hatred at a London rally this weekend

Gabor Vona, who used his new year message earlier this month to call
for the chemical castration of criminals, is due to address
“sympathisers” of his far-right party, Jobbik, on Sunday to drum up
support among expat Hungarians ahead of national and European elections
in the coming weeks.
Jobbik officials denied that Mr Vona, whose
party is accused of seeking to legitimise virulent anti-semitic and
anti-Roma views in Hungary, will use his visit to meet leaders of the
British National Party and the Greek Golden Dawn movement, whose members
have expressed admiration for Hitler.
Nick Griffin, the BNP
leader, said last month that the three parties had a “common core set of
values” and he was seeking a formal alliance with Golden Dawn and
Jobbik, which is Hungary’s third largest party, for the European
Parliament poll in May.
The expected arrival in London of the
leader of Jobbik, which has 43 seats in the Hungarian parliament and
three in the European Parliament, is the source of deep upset among
Jewish groups, politicians and members of Britain’s 100,000-strong
Hungarian population.
Andrew Dinsmore, a former Labour MP and now a
member of the London Assembly, has written to Mrs May asking for Mr
Vona to be banned from entering Britain and for Scotland Yard to
intervene to prevent the Jobbik gathering in central London, due to be
held a day before the annual Holocaust Memorial Day.
He said: “The
Home Secretary must take a stand to stop Jobbik’s message of hate being
broadcast on the streets of London. Jobbik are the most powerful
outwardly fascist political party in Europe. Their level of support in
the Hungarian elections shows how their message of hate has spread.”
A
Facebook page for the event showed that 57 people have so far declared
their intention to attend, including a woman describing herself as a
children’s music teacher in east London. Another supporter said he would
be travelling from Bristol by coach.Members of Jobbik take an oath to join
the Magyar Garda, a group pledging to 'defend Hungary physically,
morally and mentally' (Getty)In a letter to Mrs May, Jewish leaders backed the calls for a ban,
saying that the arrival of Mr Vona and a fellow Jobbik MP, Sandor Porze,
would be “an affront to the values we hold dear and is disturbing to
the British Jewish community, as well as other minorities”.
The
statement on behalf of four leading Jewish groups, including the Board
of Deputies, implored Mrs May to make “every effort to prevent these
Jobbik representatives from propagating their despicable views and
hatred in the UK”.
Hope not Hate, the anti-fascist group,
condemned the planned visit, saying it was wrong for Mr Vona to be
allowed to voice his “politics of hatred” in Britain.
The Home
Office last night declined to comment on the calls for a ban. The
Independent understands that a bar on Mr Vona is nonetheless being
actively considered under provisions which give the Home Secretary the
power to exclude an individual if his or her presence is not “conducive
to the public good”.
Scotland Yard said it was aware of the Jobbik rally and “assessing” the information.
Formed
a decade ago, Jobbik has rapidly grown by espousing a mixture of
anti-globalisation economics, hardline law-and-order policies including
the introduction of a “three strikes” rule and a barely-concealed agenda
against “Israelis” and Roma people.The Home Secretary, Theresa May (Getty Images)In November 2012, Marton Gyongyosi, the party’s deputy parliamentary
leader and its leading voice on foreign policy, called for a security
register of Hungarian Jewish legislators and ministers. Hungary, which
imposed one of the most thorough extermination policies of the Holocaust
while under occupation, has a population of about 100,000 Jews.
Mr
Gyongyosi said: “I think such a conflict makes it timely to tally up
people of Jewish ancestry who live here, especially in the Hungarian
parliament and the Hungarian government, who, indeed, pose a security
risk in Hungary.”
When the World Jewish Congress held its annual
gathering Budapest last year, Jobbik held a rally in the Hungarian
capital during which Mr Vona told supporters: “The Israeli conquerors,
these investors, should look for another country in the world for
themselves because Hungary is not for sale.”
The former history
teacher, who at 35 appeals to Hungary’s disenfranchised young, has also
frequently used his role to attack Hungary’s Roma population, calling
for a special “gendarmerie” to be set up to tackle “gypsy crime”.
He
once said: “We must produce an environment in which gypsy people can
return to a world of work, laws and education. And for those unwilling
to do so, two alternatives remain: they can either choose to take
advantage of the right of free movement granted by the EU…or there is
always prison.”
Jobbik did not respond to the criticisms but
insisted that Mr Vona’s visit to London was intended purely for a
Hungarian audience. A spokeswoman said: “This is a forum for Hungarian
citizens. This is not to do with anyone else. There are lots of
Hungarians living in London and the election is coming up in Hungary.”

A right character: Gabor Vona

Gabor Vona delivers a speech in Budapest last year (Getty)Like many far-right politicians, Gabor Vona has an eye for
controversial gestures as well as xenophobic politics in the search for
electoral popularity.
When he was sworn in as a member of the
Hungarian parliament in 2010, the leader of the Jobbik party defiantly
wore a black vest reminiscent of those worn by the country’s pro-Nazi
groups of the 1940s despite warnings that he could face prosecution.
The
garment was part of the uniform of the Hungarian Guard, a vigilante
group set up by Jobbik to work alongside police in districts with a
high population of Roma Gypsies and subsequently banned.
Born in
1978, Mr Vona was a co-founder of Jobbik in 2003 and became party leader
three years later, pushing it to win more than 16 per cent of the vote
with a mixture of populist economics laced with attacks on minorities
including Jews and Roma.
He denies his party is extremist. In his
new-year message to supporters he called for the return of the death
penalty and the introduction of chemical castration for sex offenders.

Parking warden says he was sacked for having a golly key ring

The keyring Mike Bower was found with

A parking warden says he was sacked after being found with a golly key ring at work.
Mike Bower, 52 worked as a Civil Enforcement Officer in Bury from March last year but says he was fired in December.
A
complaint was made against him after the key ring was found hanging
from his locker at the depot of firm NSL, who provide parking services
on behalf of Bury council.
He claims it must have fallen from his keys and been put there by a colleague.
But Mike, who lives in Radcliffe,
Bury, and has been married for 14 years, was suspended in early
December and was informed he was being sacked on Christmas Eve.
The
company say his dismissal also related to a Facebook comment which
referenced a fellow staff member and a “a serious act of discourtesy
towards a colleague.”
The firm said the incidents breached their diversity and communications policies.
He appealed the decision but was unsuccessful.
It is understood all staff had already been spoken to in October regarding previous allegations of racism and bullying.
And
a letter informing him of the outcome of his appeal said: “...to
introduce this (the key ring) into the workplace in these circumstances
could be construed as best naive and poor judgment and at worst as
provocative.”
Mr Bower, who has previously lived in Canada and
Greece, has now hit out at the ‘disgusting’ decision and says he intends
to take legal action for unfair dismissal.
He said: “I’m absolutely disgusted. There is nothing offensive about it, it is just a key ring.
“I told them that but by the end of the day I’d been suspended.
“Now I’ve ended up losing my job over it.
“The matter is with my solicitors and I intend to fight it all the way.”
The
golly was a children’s literary character created by Florence Kate
Upton in the late 19th century, and was inspired by a minstrel doll.
The
doll was adopted as a mascot by the jam manufacturer Robertson’s in
1910, but was dropped in 2001 following accusations of racism.
However Mr Bower denied the item having any racial overtones.
He
said he had contacted numerous organisations including the leader of
Bury council Mike Connolly, the Home Office, his local MP Ivan Lewis and
the Human Rights Commission about his case.
He has also contacted
the key ring manufactures themselves who he says told him it was not
offensive and that the item was ‘one of their bestsellers.’
He said: “I used to have one of the dolls as a child.
“I bought the key ring at a car boot sale because it was big and it would stop me losing my motorbike keys.
“I had a Scooby Doo one which was similar.
“Someone has decided to make it racial, which is completely wrong.”
A
spokeswoman for NSL said: “We can confirm that a CEO was dismissed from
his employment with NSL on 23 December 2013.“The grounds for dismissal
involve breaches of the NSL Diversity Policy, the NSL Communications
Policy, and for committing a serious act of discourtesy toward a fellow
colleague.
“An appeal was recently held, which upheld the dismissal.”http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/golly-key-ring-sack-says-6556857

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Glasgow
City Council have imposed a change of route for Sunday's parade after
failing to negotiate a settlement with the organisers.

The
counter-protest had been arranged by a recently-formed militant Loyalist
group called the Regimental Blues, which met with Police Scotland about
its plans last Wednesday.

A report on the matter before the
authority's public processions committee today stated : "There is clear
written evidence that a counter-demonstration against this procession
will be mounted. What is not clear is the extent and size of this demonstration and whether any attempt will be made to disrupt the procession.

"
The group had wanted to march from the Kelvingrove Park area in the
west end, through the city centre, past the cenotaph and on to Glasgow
Green, a route it had not previously taken but said it had selected as
it was combining parades with another grouping.

Concerns were also raised about music being played when passing churches in the city centre.

At today's meeting, the council permitted the march to go ahead but
said it had to take a route from Royston in the north of the city, via
High Street on the city centre's eastern periphery to Glasgow Green.

A council spokesman said: "The details of the procession could not be
agreed by negotiation. Committee ruled that the procession should follow
the same route as in previous years."

The move came after it
emerged that the council has forwarded a petition by the Regimental
Blues regarding a senior authority official to Police Scotland. A
spokesman claimed many comments on the petition were abusive and
threatening.

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Drax protesters' undercover police case convictions quashed

Mark Kennedy was an undercover police officer for the Metropolitan Police for seven years

Twenty-nine
people sentenced after a power station protest at which an undercover
police officer was working have had their convictions quashed.

Protesters boarded a freight train carrying coal to the Drax plant near Selby in North Yorkshire in June 2008.
The case against them involved undisclosed information gathered by undercover officer Mark Kennedy.
Court of Appeal judges quashed the convictions over a failure to disclose Mr Kennedy was working undercover.
The decision follows an announcement in 2012 by the then
Director of Public Prosecutions that he had concerns over the safety of
convictions.
The convictions were overturned by the Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas, Mr Justice Simon and Mr Justice Irwin.'Underhand tactics'
Lord Thomas said: "There was a complete and total failure, for
reasons which remain unclear, to make a disclosure fundamental to the
defence.
"In those circumstances, this court has no alternative but to quash the convictions."

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It underlines further the need for public independent inquiry into the use of political policing”

Beth StratfordSpokeswoman for the 29

Outside court, Beth Stratford,
speaking on behalf of the 29, said: "We are pleased because this shines a
light on the underhand tactics of the police and the Crown Prosecution
Service in their policing of political movements.

"It underlines further the need for public independent inquiry into the use of political policing."
The Drax protest lasted 16 hours, causing delays to numerous
freight and passenger services, and the clean-up operation cost Network
Rail nearly £37,000.
Participants were sentenced at Leeds Crown Court in 2009 and 2010 for obstructing the railway.
They were charged with obstructing engines or carriages on railways, which is an offence under the Malicious Damage Act 1861.
Some were ordered to do 60 hours of unpaid work and others were given conditional discharges.
Speaking about Mr Kennedy's involvement, Lord Thomas said the
undercover officer, who hired a van and transported activists to the
site, kept a detailed record of what happened and made reports to his
handler, who communicated them to senior West Yorkshire police officers.
He said: "None of that was disclosed at the trial or at any time prior to it."

During the protest coal was shovelled on to the track to stop the train moving

The judge said his involvement was "either the fault of the
police or someone at the CPS or possible counsel involved" and said each
of those interviewed had "given a different account".
Lord Thomas said it could not be categorically stated that
the event would or would not have happened without Mr Kennedy's
involvement but if it had been disclosed, as it should, issues would
have been raised before the trial as to whether there had been an abuse
of process.
The judge asked counsel to prepare written submissions on the
question of who should be responsible for the "substantial" legal costs
incurred, to be decided later.
Questioning why the Ministry of Justice should foot the bill,
he said: "This is a plain case of fault, either by the West Yorkshire
Police or the CPS, so why shouldn't they pay?"
Mr Kennedy spent seven years undercover, infiltrating
left-wing protest groups and travelling to 11 different countries on 40
occasions.
His actions undercover led to the collapse in 2011 of the
case against six protesters accused of planning to invade the coal-fired
Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire and led to a review
of police undercover tactics.

NWN: The Police have been corrupting democratic politics/activities for years. Nationalism in the UK, is in the position it is, almost entirely due to state involvement. If Messrs Griffin and Darby ain't working for 'the state', I will eat my hat with a turd on it !

Monday, January 20, 2014

Palace reshuffle as the Queen passes more royal responsibilities to Prince Charles

THE relocating of staff within Buckingham Palace
suggest that the first steps are being taken to bring Prince Charles to
the throne.

Steps are being taken to hand royal duties over to Prince Charles [ GETTY]A merging of palace staff has begun, which sees Prince Charles' aide become the media chief for the entire Royal household.

The heir to the throne will also accompany his mother to the beaches of Normandy later this year.

The
trip is to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings, Charles
accompanying the Queen on the trip further adds to speculation that it
may be the monarch's final engagement overseas.

A French
government official, who was involved with organising the D-Day
anniversary events, revealed that: "We have been told this will probably
be the Queen's last official foreign visit."The shuffle was instigated by the Queen's Private Secretary Sir Christopher Geidt [GETTY]Sally Osman will head the new merged press office [REX]And Palace sources recently confessed that Her Majesty's schedule contains no further foreign trips.

We have been told this will probably be the Queen's last official foreign visit

A French government advisor

A source said that no official
decision had yet been made, claiming: "Invitations are still coming in
and we are assessing them on their merits."
These recent changes in the palace are being interpreted by many as an effective 'job-share' of the monarchy as the Queen grows old.

Charles will stand in for his mother at some of the day's major engagements, further signs that he is increasingly taking on the role as monarch.

Royal
aides are expected to make the announcement this week, revealing that
the Prince's media team has been merged with that of the Queen.The Queen will delegate but remain in charge [PA]The
single communication pod will be based in Buckingham Palace and headed
by Prince Charles' aide Sally Osman, in a move masterminded by Her
Majesty's private secretary Sir Christopher Geidt.

Sunday, January 12, 2014

GOLDEN DAWN - BEWARE !

Nick Griffin, Leader of the British National Party and member of
European Parliament, speaks out against the treacherous persecution of
Golden Dawn in a joint press conference including Eleni Zaroulia, Ilias
Kasidiaris and Artemis Mathaiopoulos.
Nick Griffin is a close contact with us here at Golden Dawn New York
and many of his party members frequently check this site for updates in
English on matters regarding the situation in Greece.
The attack on Nationalists all over Europe is a problem that brings
us closer together. It is certainly ironic that the EU, which claims to
be in support of preventing conflicts between nation states in its
borders, is actually causing them instead.The true nationalists are forging ties that will crush this Zionistic EU monstrosity once and for all!

Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Nick Griffin losing in Court yet again !

This
morning (7/1/2014) in Court 57 of the Royal Courts of Justice, Nick Griffin and
Simon Darby faced another costs hearing, resulting from their long
running and disastrous attempt to bring civil actions against several
former BNP officials – Kenny Smith, Nicholla Ritchie (now Mrs Smith),
Steve Blake and Ian Dawson.

Griffin
and Darby lost the first stages of this case as long ago as April 2008,
lost the final stage in December 2010, and lost subsequent appeals. A
few days ago Griffin was bankrupted in Welshpool County Court following
an action by his own former solicitors, whom he had failed to pay.

Griffin
and Darby were also of course ordered to pay the other side’s costs,
and characteristically they have tried to drag out the process, tyring
to avoid the bill for their hubris. A first instalment of £45,000 was
eventually paid.

Today they were ordered to pay an additional instalment of £22,500 within 28 days.

Yet
another costs hearing in the case is now scheduled for Friday 21st
March. This is to allow the Official Receiver, who is now in charge of
Nick Griffin’s affairs, to make representations if he so wishes. The
total costs bill in this case is likely to be more than £130,000 (in
addition to Griffin and Darby’s own costs).

Anyone
considering making a donation to the British National Party should be
aware that – contrary to Mr Griffin’s assertions – party funds are
unlikely to be safe from Griffin and Darby’s creditors in this and other
cases. Remember that today’s long running case (though the largest) is
only one of several legal liabilities confronting Griffin and his
party.

Nick Griffin did not turn up to court today, though Simon Darby and Clive Jefferson did. Surprisingly Heritage and Destiny was the only media organisation represented!

Buy-to-let tycoon evicts tenants on benefits in favour of Eastern Europeans - because 'they are better at paying rent'

Fergus Wilson has sent eviction notices to 200 tenants on housing benefit

He said Eastern Europeans less likely to default on rent than Britons

Mr Wilson said many other private landlords had taken the same decision

A buy-to-let tycoon has banned housing
benefit tenants in favour of Eastern European migrants who he says are
more likely to pay their rent on time.Fergus
Wilson has sent eviction notices to 200 tenants on housing benefit and
said he would not accept any more welfare applicants.The
former maths teacher, who built up one of Britain’s biggest buy-to-let
empires with his wife Judith, said his decision was based on experience
as he had found Eastern Europeans were less likely to default on rent
payments than Britons on housing benefit.

Fergus Wilson has sent eviction notices to 200
tenants on housing benefit and said he would not accept any more welfare
applicants.
The former maths teacher built up one of Britain's biggest buy-to-let
empires with his wife Judith

He said many other
private landlords had taken the same decision, a claim echoed by housing
charities including Shelter. It warned ‘benefit blackspots’ were
forming across Britain as claimants have been forced to move out of
popular areas.Private
landlords have the right to refuse or accept tenants, and recent
evidence suggests they do not want those who rely on housing benefit. Research
from the National Landlords Association in December revealed that the
number of private landlords letting to people on benefits had dropped to
just one in five.Mr Wilson, 65, said housing benefit rates had gone down in recent years, while private rent had gone up.

‘The gap is such that I
have taken the decision to withdraw from taking tenants on housing
benefit,’ he told The Guardian. ‘From what I can gather just about all
other landlords have done the same. Our situation is that not one of our
working tenants is in arrears – all those in arrears are on housing
benefit.’ Mr Wilson
said the housing shortage in the South East meant there was strong
competition for rental properties, and he now preferred tenants from
countries like Poland, who were more likely to pay their rent on time. He said private landlords run their properties as a business and have to make decisions based on economic factors.

Mr Wilson said his decision was based on
experience as he had found Eastern Europeans were less likely to default
on rent payments than Britons on housing benefit. He said many other
private landlords had taken the same decision, a claim echoed by housing
charities including Shelter

‘Tenants on benefits are
competing with Eastern Europeans who came to the UK in 2005 and have
built up a good enough credit record to rent privately,’ Mr Wilson said.‘We’ve
found them to be a good category of tenant who don’t default on the
rent. With tenants on benefits the number of defaulters outnumbers the
ones who pay on time.‘Single
mothers on benefits have been displaced to the bottom of the pile;
sympathy for this group is disappearing. There aren’t enough places for
people to live.’Mr Wilson and his wife, also a former maths teacher, started their property empire in 1986. They
were said to have been on the brink of financial ruin in 2008 after
banks stopped lending in the credit crunch, but were saved when the Bank
of England slashed interest rates and held them at a historic low.They
now own nearly 1,000 properties around Ashford in Kent and their
property empire has been valued at an estimated £225million.Around nine million people pay rent to a private landlord. Shelter said some 500,000 claim housing benefit.Its
spokesman Roger Harding said the refusal of some private landlords to
accept welfare claimants as tenants meant they were forced to leave
desirable locations and accept poor quality housing. He said: ‘If this continues we will see blackspots where people on housing benefit simply cannot find anywhere reasonable.’

NWN: It's filth like this that should be taxed to high heaven by the Government. All these types care about is counting their money. Patriotism is totally alien and he probably gives donations to the main parties who are bringing in all these immigrants.

British National Party leader Nick Griffin has been declared bankrupt, it emerged today.The outspoken politician insisted he will continue as a member of the European Parliament and run for re-election in May.He
brushed aside the idea that his financial problems would end his
political career and revealed he is writing a booklet on dealing with
debts.

BNP leader Nick Griffin has been declared
bankrupt but insists he will stand for election to the European
Parliament again in May

As an MEP Mr Griffin
enjoys a basic salary of around £76,000, plus extra basic allowances
worth £46,000 with more for travel and accommodation.A listing at the Insolvency Service showed Mr Griffin was declared bankrupt at Welshpool and Newtown County Court yesterday.

The BNP said that Mr
Griffin had run up debts of £120,000 to solicitors Gilbert Davies &
Partners, which represented him in the early stages of legal action
against the European Commission.He had offered to repay 42p for every pound he owed to all his creditors but this was rejected by the courts.

Mr Griffin was elected for the North West region of England in 2009

Politicians declared bankrupt
used to be barred from seeking election again, but the rules were
changed in 2002 meaning it no longer prevents someone from being an MP
or MEP, or standing for election.In
a statement Mr Griffin said: 'This order will not prevent me fighting
for the interests of the British people or leading the British National
Party to a fresh round of electoral victories. 'It’s of no political significance whatsoever. I will take whatever is thrown at me and deal with it. 'I champion the right of the British people to their land and I will never surrender. 'On
a practical note, I am now much better able to advise and help the huge
numbers of decent ordinary folk in my constituency who have financial
difficulties of their own. 'I
will be producing an advice booklet on dealing with debt very shortly
and can speak from personal experience rather than from an ivory tower
in Brussels.'

Wednesday, January 01, 2014

Bankers' very happy new year: RBS boss gets £1.5m shares after three
months in job as 115 Goldman Sachs executives pocket £3m each

Ross McEwanonly took over the State-backed bank in October

He was given stock as compensation for missing out on bonuses

Announcement made after markets closed for New Year holiday

Archbishop says foreign banks 'in denial' about their role in crisis

Barclays boss admits it could take decade for sector to win back trust

Ross McEwan, who only took over the State-backed bank in October, was quietly handed an astonishing £1.5million in free shares

Fury over bankers' pay erupted
again last night after the new boss of RBS was quietly handed an
astonishing £1.5million in free shares.Ross
McEwan, who only took over the State-backed bank in October, was given
the stock as compensation for missing out on bonuses at his previous
employer.The announcement
was made after markets closed for the New Year holiday, and was
seemingly designed to attract minimum publicity.Mr
McEwan's payout emerged as Goldman Sachs revealed 'obscene' pay deals
worth more than £3 million each to 115 of its senior bankers.The
bumper packages were disclosed as Archbishop Justin Welby said
foreign-owned banks in the City of London were 'in denial' about their
role in the financial crisis, and Barclays boss Antony Jenkins admitted
it could take a decade for the sector to win back public trust.Deborah
Hargreaves, of the High Pay Centre, said: 'When you look at the pay
everyone else is getting, to see bankers on that kind of salary is just
not justified.'She added:
'We live in a country where some people are being forced to go to food
banks because they can't feed themselves, so it's obscene to see bankers
being paid £3 million on average. It's an outrageous indictment of a
civilised society.'New
Zealand-born Mr McEwan, who is paid a basic salary of £1 million, was
given 454,106 RBS shares when he joined the bank in 2012 as its head of
UK retail to make up for leaving his job at Commonwealth Bank in
Australia. In October, he became chief executive after Stephen Hester
walked away from the role.The
454,106 shares were paid out to Mr McEwan yesterday, with a value of
£1.53 million. RBS issued a statement confirming the figures only after
the stock market had closed for the year.

Mr McEwan immediately
sold 214,019 of the shares to cover tax liabilities arising from the
vesting, but will hold on to 240,087 shares, worth £816,775, which he
will not be able to sell for six months. He
is entitled to a further 1.05million shares – worth £3.5 million based
on RBS's closing price yesterday of £3.38. They can't be vested until
August 2015.An RBS
spokesman said: 'Ross McEwan will not sell any shares in RBS while he is
chief executive of the bank. He wants everyone to have confidence that
his interests are 100 per cent aligned with our customers and our
shareholders, including UK taxpayers.'

(File picture) A man uses a cashpoint machine
outside a branch of RBS in the City of London. The bank has given its
boss stock as compensation for missing out on bonuses at his previous
employer

Goldman, meanwhile, said
115 of its top staff around the world shared a cash pool worth
£122 million, or more than £1 million each.But
senior bankers are also entitled to a bonus paid in shares, which are
awarded in three instalments and cannot be cashed in for five years.The
shares are currently worth a combined £250 million, or £2.2 million for
each recipient. Taken with the cash, this adds up to a payout of more
than £3 million a head.

Justin Welby, the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, says foreign banks are 'in denial' about their role in the financial crisis

Goldman Sachs (pictured here in Fleet Street,
London) said 115 of its top staff around the world shared a cash pool
worth £122million, or more than £1million each

Goldman employs 5,000
staff in London and 32,400 worldwide. The bank's role in the global
crisis came under heavy scrutiny in 2010, when it was slapped with a
£333 million fine by US regulators over claims that it misled investors.New
rules limiting what banks in the European Union can pay in bonuses come
into force today. They will be banned from paying bonuses worth more
than a banker's annual salary, or twice as much as their pay if
sanctioned by shareholders. But most banks are expected to raise basic
pay in order to offset the decline.

'[Ross McEwan]wants everyone to have confidence that
his interests are 100 per cent aligned with our customers and our
shareholders, including UK taxpayers.'

RBS spokesman

Mr Welby, an Eton-educated former oil
executive who sat on the influential Parliamentary Commission on Banking
Standards, said many bankers did not understand how the industry's
culture of high risk and reckless pursuit of profit had brought the
global economy to its knees.'I
don't want to name names but I came across some people recently who
were senior members of the City from foreign organisations, but who were
very clearly still absolutely in denial about what happened in 2008,'
he said.Mr Welby called on
banks to think harder about their role in society. But he was forced to
admit that the Church had yet to sell £80,000 worth of shares in Wonga,
the controversial payday lender that has been attacked for charging
sky-high interest rates.Mr
Jenkins, speaking in his role as a guest editor of Radio 4's Today
programme, said: 'Trust is a very easy thing to lose and a very hard
thing to win back. In my view it will take several years – probably five
to ten – to rebuild trust in Barclays.' Mr
McEwan's first three months as chief executive have been beset by
problems, including an IT failure that left 750,000 customers of RBS,
NatWest and Ulster Bank unable to use their credit and debit cards for
hours. He branded the failure 'unacceptable' and vowed to 'do better'.

Roma already in Britain 'are defecating on people's doorsteps' says top
Tory council leader as she warns of burden that Romanian and Bulgarian
immigrants will place on public services

Philippa Roe of Westminster City Council says council taxpayers will face rising bills from Bulgarian and Romanian immigration

Claims that Roma immigrants have been begging aggressively and behaving in an unsanitary way

Tens of thousands of Eastern Europeans expected in UK from tomorrow

Police boss says Romanians are already most likely to be criminals

A leading Conservative has warned
that council taxpayers face rising costs from the influx of Romanian and
Bulgarian immigrants set to start tomorrow - and claims that Roma are
already causing trouble by begging aggressively and defecating in
public.Philippa Roe,
leader of Westminster City Council, said that local authorities had 'no
idea' how many Eastern Europeans would come to Britain after immigration
restrictions are lifted on January 1.And
a police commissioner in the Midlands revealed that more crimes are
committed by Romanians than by any other group of foreign nationals in
his area even before the rules have changed.Many
Tories and immigration campaigners have been warning for month that
tens of thousands of Romanian and Bulgarian citizens are set to come to
Britain when laws banning them from are repealed tomorrow.

Trouble: Roma being moved on by police at Marble Arch ahead of restrictions being lifted on Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants

Ms Roe said today that
some members of the Roma community have already been causing trouble in
Central London with their aggressive and unhygienic behaviour.'You've
only got to wander around Marble Arch at 7.30 in the morning to see the
camps,' she told The World at One on BBC Radio 4.

'We have people walking
out of their front door to find people sleeping on their front
doorsteps, people defecating on their front doorstep - it's extremely
unpleasant and it goes with the very aggressive begging and
pickpocketing and other sorts of crime in the area which affects both
residents and tourists.'It's this minority one is really concerned about, but it is this minority that has this really big impact.'She
added: 'We have been trying hard to make sure we are prepared but one
of the issues we face is we just have no idea how many people are going
to come to London and draw on our resources.'

Warning: A council leader has said that even
before the expected immigration influx there have been problems with
Roma sleeping rough and behaving in anti-social ways

ROMANIA APPOINTS NEW CONSUL IN BRISTOL BRINGING TOTAL NUMBER IN BRITAIN TO EIGHT

The
Romanian government has appointed a new consul to an eighth British
city ahead of an expected influx of immigrants from the Eastern European
country.Razvan
Constantinescu became honorary consul officer to Bristol this month,
shortly before the UK planned to open its borders to Romanians on
January 1.The country
already has representatives in Belfast, Cardiff, Inverness, Leeds,
Liverpool, Morpeth and Southampton, as well as the ambassador based in
London.Mr
Contantinescu, who works at Bristol City Council fighting human
trafficking, says he is keen to establish direct flights from Bristol to
Romania as well as boosting business links.He
insisted that fewer of his countrymen would migrate to the UK than is
often predicted, pointing out that thousands are already here.'Most
of the Romanians who wanted to come over to Britain to set up in
business, to explore working opportunities, have already done so,' Mr
Contantinescu said.

Shortly before Christmas, the
Government rushed through new rules to ban immigrants from receiving
unemployment benefits for their first three months in the country.However,
Ms Roe called for this limit to be extended even further, saying: 'I
would much rather it had been a year, if not two years.'Staffordshire's
Police and Crime Commissioner said that Romanian criminals were more
prolific than those from any other foreign country and expressed fears
that the problem would only get worse.Matthew
Ellis said that he was seeking talks with Home Secretary Theresa May in
a bid to mitigate the impact of a large number of poor immigrants
arriving at the same time.It
is understood that 981 Romanians were arrested in Staffordshire between
April 2010 and September 2013, followed by 967 Polish nationals and 636
Lithuanians.In total, 7.5 per cent of all arrests in the county involved foreign nationals.'I am currently talking to the chief
constable about the new changes,' Mr Ellis said today. 'This is an area
where Stoke-on-Trent is seeing a significant rise in the number of
people who are not only being placed there by the state as asylum
seekers but also foreign nationals moving there.'It's clear that their cultures are slightly different and their expectations are slightly different.'

Concerns: Philippa Roe of Wesminster City Council says she does not know how many new immigrants to expect

MigrationWatch UK,
which campaigns against unrestricted immigration, has claimed that
Britain will be the most lucrative destination in the EU for new
immigrants despite the new rules on benefits.'Britain's generous benefits system acts as a pull factor for migrants from across Europe,' said chairman Sir Andrew Green.'There
must now be a renegotiation of the benefit system in the EU which was
designed before 100million people in much poorer countries joined the
EU. But business
leaders have welcomed the impending arrival of Bulgarians and Romanians,
saying it will help boost the workforce and strengthen the economy.The
London Chamber of Commerce and Industry said that 55 per cent of its
members believe immigration has had a positive impact on the capital.The
UK imposed seven-year restrictions on Romania and Bulgaria after they
joined the EU in 2007 - only allowing citizens a visa if they were
self-employed, had a job offer, or were given a specialist role.

NWN: Some of us have been telling everyone for almost 40 years about immigration. But few listened.The Roma have been described as the 'scum of the earth' by many. They seem to be coming here en masse.